The Privileges of Independence: Neomercantilism and the American Revolution (Early America: History, Context, Culture)

by J.E. Crowley

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In this volume, John Crowley argues that the US colonies' successful revolt did not mean they wished to end their privileged commercial dependence on Great Britain. From the 1760s through the mid-1790s, in fact, Anglo-American political economists grappled with the transistion from a "de jure" to a "de facto" economic dependence of the new states on their former mother country. Crowley shows that the Revolutionaries were not principled free-traders and that British pundits and policymakers who took a hard line against the Americans after the war were more influenced by Adam Smith than their antagonists on either side of the Atlantic.
  • ISBN10 0801846676
  • ISBN13 9780801846670
  • Publish Date 1 September 1993
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 9 January 2001
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 224
  • Language English